Workshop: 8 February 2018
Friday Talk: 9 February 2018
The workshop began with a close-reading and discussion of Lifelong Learning Policies devised by the European Commission. We looked at the connection between policy-making as a strategic implementation of knowledge-based economies in Europe since the 1990s together with the formation of a pedagogical subjectivity that is intertwined with the advancement of an artistic subject as the role model for a new economy.
Excerpts from texts on lifelong learning by the Commission of European Communities (2000-2016) were read through the work of various scholars including Sylvia Wynter, Stefano Harney, Fred Moten and Andrea Phillips. We explored how language signals the economisation of learning and attempt to locate practices or spaces that are not colonised under current conditions.
We invited participants to reflect on their own learning economies and share insights into the material conditions of different forms of work and pedagogical practice. We asked: How is your work resourced and sustained? How is learning shaped by these economies? Can we view alternative economies or envisage counter-practices for education beyond the hegemony of economic models?
Biography
Annette Krauss’ practice addresses the intersection of art, politics and everyday life. Her artistic work emerges through di erent media, such as performance, video, historical and everyday research, pedagogy and texts. Krauss has (co-)initiated various long-term collaborative practices: Hidden Curriculum, Sites for Unlearning, Read-in, ASK!, Read the Masks. Tradition is Not Given, and School of Temporalities. These projects re ect and build upon the potential of collaborative practices while aiming to disrupt “truths” that are taken for granted in theory and practice.
Recent collaborations, exhibitions, lectures, screenings, and workshops have taken place at Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht; KUNCI, Cultural Studies Center, Yogyakarta; The Showroom, London; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Kunstverein, Wiesbaden; and Whitechapel Gallery. Since 2011, Krauss has been a lecturer at HKU Fine Art, Utrecht. Currently, she holds a Post-Doc position at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
